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Anyway! This was also my first time walking down the anarchic bazaar of Canal Street, unplanned, and it was delightful. A person walking ahead of me suddenly shrieked with surprise, stopping to snap up a faux-gucci purse from a blanket. “You like that one? I give you a good deal!” said the […]

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I guess continuing to avoid photographing faces anyway is kinda like wearing an N-95 mask today, but for your camera, and I mean that kindly.

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I find myself still following the advice I learned at the top of last year about avoiding photographing any marcher’s face, coz it feels right, but buddy… I dunno how the protests work where you’re from but out here the marcher’s own organizers will absolutely stand up next to each speaker or […]

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This protest was, unsurprisingly, much more emotionally intense and full of negative energy than any of the protests I’ve marched in since last year. I don’t mean “negative” as in “bad”, you understand. It was appropriate to the context. But it was absolutely an angry march, not a proud one. The […]

jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

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I’m on my way to join a protest against Miller’s goons gunning down my neighbors in the street, and then I’m going to drop off a busted PlayStation controller for repair at the local indie game shop if I’m gonna be below Midtown anyway, because New York has every kind of energy and I let it all […]

jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

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Hands Off NYC is holding an emergency protest today at 5:30 in Foley Square, after ICE shot a neighbor in front of his kid yesterday. #NYC www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/08/…

FRIDAY OCTOBER 9
EMERGENCY PROTEST
ICESHOT
A NEW YORKER
FOLEY SQUARE
5:30PM
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#TwasThis: I did manage to catch the Morgan Library’s fantastic exhibit of Tarot card history and artwork right before it closed, last week. One of my favorite sights was this tantalizing sample of cards from The New Tarot Deck, designed in 1974 by Jack Hurley and John Horler. […] […]

Hi I'm Sean @seano.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

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Pics. Some of the coolest signs were really expensive 😭 we walked away with a few but I did NOT budget enough time for all this. Line to get in, line to check out, line to leave.

A picture of people browsing signs on the ground

A police officer watching people browsing signs on the ground

An awesome sign talking about additional entrances

No entry sign with lots of awesome symbols

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Hi I'm Sean @seano.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I finally did it this year. Instead of learning about this AFTER it happened, I took the day off and am taking an hour long train ride almost to Coney Island for the MTA pop up shop. I'll only be able to stay for a short while, but if anyone else is going and to be there when it opens lmk. I […]

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It’s kinda funny how Mamdani’s famous print campaign material all focused on his first name, which exactly nobody uses in public discussion, outside of NY Post headline writers. Curtis Sliwa cheerfully learned where all the M’s and N’s go in his surname after a stumble or two and so has everyone […]

Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

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*Ukrainian drones blowing up a Yandex data center. The distribited Internet was invented so that there wouldn't be any data centers to blow up.

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#Fogknife: Today I tried making a mind map about a real project with Apple’s Freeform for the first time, inspired by my M1 MacBook’s recent upgrade to macOS 27 (leapfrogging clear over the much-maligned version 26, as planned). I’m quite happy with the results. […] […]

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I have caught up with Swan Boy · ’Twas This

Since discovering it last week, I have caught up with Branson Reese’s Swan Boy webcomic, chomping through eight years of thrice-weekly strips. […] jmac.org/notes/2026-10-07-i-have-ca…

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#TwasThis: When I was a young reader of Mad magazine I would giggle in horror at its jokes about dog poop on the sidewalks of New York City, and the sometimes insurmountable challenge of avoiding it as a pedestrian. I therefore always felt a bit curious why the NYC of my adulthood—and the Boston […]

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#TwasThis: The New York Times reports that as Alpine ice vanishes faster than any other place on the planet, hurried away by climate change, at least it’s revealing a trove of fascinating, millenia-old human artifacts, including fragments of skis and snowshoes […]

jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The first thing I have made in Acorn is an edit of a tourist selfie of Amy and myself from our recent visit to Scotland, which I use as the title artwork for the modded copy of #EldenRing on our two Steam Decks. We just started a new co-op campaign, you see. That’s […] [Original post on masto.nyc]

Screenshot of a Steam Deck launcher screen. The highlighted game is titled “Hapless Tourists”, and features jmac and Amy taking an awkward selfie in front of Stormveil Castle from the video game Elden Ring.

jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Acorn is an indie image editor by Flying Meat. It replaces Pixelmator for me, which I bought long ago, pre-Acorn, and rode until it stopped working. (Just now.) Flying meat made VoodooPad back in the day, a kind of personal-wiki app that was my core digital notebook from around 2004 through […]

jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

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Two or three days ago I leapt clear over macOS 26 to arrive at 27 on my M1 MacBook, as long planned. So far I am having a perfectly fine time. Haven’t installed Rosetta yet; seeing if I can do without, since this version is its swan song. (Bought Acorn, at last.) I am not enraged by the dock […]

jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

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How do you say out loud the “[One brand] X [Another brand]” thing? Do you just say “X”? “Crossed with”? “Collab”, but as a postfix? (Not looking for “I don’t” as an answer, I already have that one.)

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I’m in a space that alleges to be the #Boston South Station bus terminal? What the heck? When did all this happen? Where’d the grungy bus terminal of my memories go, the one you had to trudge to in shame through a side alley next the to Regina Pizza, so that you […] [Original post on masto.nyc]

A shiny and quite new looking bus terminal interior.

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Strange poetry in that hearing a loud male voice saying GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING on the subway platform could be either someone about to go into their panhandling spiel or a cop waking up a napping panhandler #NYC

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42nd street and the conductor is telling everyone boarding that this train is express because SOMEone in the front cars was holding the doors earlier #NYC

“We cannot leave if you hold the train doors open!” Yes correct I assume that is why the anonymous ne’er-do-wells in the front cars are doing it so I dunno if this kind of scolding is effective discouragement. Jmac coming at you with a little real talk from the rear cars. #NYC

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

The :1train: just sat in 86th street for five minutes while the conductor lectured us the whole time about not holding the train doors, which was new to me. And now we’re expressing! Which is fine with me, I’m going to 14th, suckers #NYC

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RE: mastodon.gamedev.place/@eviltrout/1… I loved Blake Manor, and I also loved Type Help, the free, text-based predecessor to Galley House. This is a nice deal!

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

#TwasThis: Today I turned ten Cobalt-60 half-lives old, according to the Mathaversaries calendar I subscribed to quite a while ago. (Technically, I am subscribed to its predecessor project, Mathematical Anniversaries, which I dimly recall learning of through Making Light, or some place like it.) […]

jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

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#TwasThis: While I’ve never owned a dedicated e-reader, Nena Farrell’s Wired preview of the Boox Picco—$100 and apparently no larger than a playing card—piques my interest. jmac.org/notes/2026-09-29-i-am-inte…

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I am interested in tiny e-readers suddenly · ’Twas This

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Graham Dunning @grahamdunning.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Out Today! LEAFCUTTER JOHN - WARM GRIT Tape and download. Scratchy ambient drones with field recordings, synths and John's home made gritstone turntables. Tapes are ready to send - check the bandcamp for photos, including the fosted/opaque tapes which look ace. UK postage is cheap. Postage to […]

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117355116… Grim as hell, as is the fact that I rode the A past the same stop about two hours later, unaware of any of this. The subway stops for nothing. #NYC

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jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I appear to be sliding into practical #TTRPG speak where I happily call any kind of game “D&D”—especially if I’m telling a non-player what my afternoon plans are, or the like—but if I’m *specifically* playing literal Dungeons and Dragons™, then I call it “5E”.